H.264 is the latest official video compression standard, which follows from the highly successful MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 video standards and offers improvements in both video quality and compression. The ...

For devices that can decode HEVC video, performance is a concern. As HEVC compresses video streams to a greater extent than H.264, it requires more processing power to decompress; a pretty typical ...

In the world of video codecs, ProRes and H.264 are two names that often come up. Both are widely used in the industry, but they serve different purposes and offer different advantages. In this guide, ...

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Let's take a look at how the various encodes perform. Throughout the following section, all encodes were made using Handbrake with the settings as mentioned, with the exception of the Nvidia encodes, ...